Journalism and Truth: Strange Bedfellows

by Tom Goldstein

The complaint is all too common: I know something about that, and the news got it wrong. Why this should be, and what it says about the relationship between journalism and truth, is exactly the question that is at the core of Tom Goldstein's very timely book.

Other disciplines, Goldstein tells us, have clear protocols for gathering evidence and searching for truth. Journalism, however, has some curious conventions that may actually work against...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810124335
• ISBN13: 9780810124332
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 7.9"